The people behind jAlbum

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History

Returning from a skiing trip in 2002, founder David Ekholm intended to share his newly taken pictures with his friends. David started to look for photo album software and tried out what the market had to offer. After numerous disappointments with various album clients, being a programmer, he decided to take matters into his own hands...

With jAlbum you have full control of the look of the generated album, not just the color theme and basic layout. Making an album is still just a simple matter of drag and drop, plus a button click if you prefer to use one of the many existing looks. jAlbum will process your images, make index pages, create slide show pages and even upload the final album to the Internet for your friends to see. jAlbum runs on all platforms and speaks over 30 languages.

Today, jAlbum is one of the world's most popular applications for producing web photo albums. The jAlbum application has been used to publish more than twenty million albums and is downloaded more than two thousand times per day. The variety of album skins and the possibility to personalize the presentation makes jAlbum extremely flexible. jAlbum has an active community that contributes to the development of the skins, plugins and language options.

Membres du personnel

More info: "I started making jAlbum after coming home from a ski trip with friends and didn't find any good software for making web albums. That was in 2002. The years since then have been the most exciting in my life, but a lot of work too. (I wouldn't mind another ski trip...) Luckily jAlbum has the best community in the world to help. /David"

More info: "I have seen the development of jAlbum since the first beta version back in 2002. I also like photography. But maybe more the technical part of taking photos, than the artistic. Trying out a new lens on the SLR is great. /Anders"

More info: "I started my carreer as electric engineer and freelancer programmer but then I switched to graphics and ad industry. Now I'm getting fed up with the ads and trying to move back to programming and web-design. My hobbies are jAlbum :) , photography, travel, cooking, running. I started making Chameleon in 2005, when after I've tried several album software finally found jAlbum."

More info: "I'm the Biz Dev guy here at jAlbum with a passion for the web and e-commerce. Feel free to contact me with any great ideas for partnerships, marketing or web user experience.
Did you know jAlbum has over 200 million monthly impressions? Wow! For a biz guy like myself this is heaven."

Admins

More info: "After a career as a computer jockey/attorney, I retired at the ripe old age of 46, and have been traveling the world ever since. After struggling to put together web pages to share my travel photos, I stumbled into jAlbum, and never left!"

More info: "I started my working life as a compositor (printing), changed in 1970 to programming mainframe computers, retiring in 2000.Started sailboarding in 1980 until my trusty old Windsurfer began to disintegrate from too much UV after 18 years. Now trying to master the art of kitesurfing, but might have to go back to windsurfing if I can't crack the code pretty soon."

More info: "I'm not a programmer, my background is in electronic engineering, and I don't "know" Java, but thanks to the ease of use of jAlbum and the support of the community I've been amazed at how much one can do with this program. In my case I wanted to be able to build a photo gallery that not only looked like it was part of a web site but was also fully integrated into it, rather than being an "add on". I also wanted to use CSS positioning instead of tables and frames and came up with the Notables skin. I also wrote a tool for creating a javascript based random slide show and total image count (handy for a count of images across multiple projects)."

Les développeurs de skins

More info: "Career: Tech Consultant. Hobbies include: music, web design, browsing (heavy internet user!) I love classic movies! Just like everyone else, visited jAlbum site when I wanted to create an album for myself and the more I spent time on it, the more I liked it and inspired by the way the templates can be customized. Guess what? Started creating my own skins and to be frank it's the users community behind my continuous effort on my skin development. jAlbum Forum: great place to hang out :) Good luck with your new skin! /Dhina"

More info: "I like to discover beautiful landscapes, to make photos of them and even after years to remember where I shot my photos for being able to turn back there. For creating online photo albums I use jAlbum since its early days. For my purposes I've created the skin "PositionMap" which is becoming more and more feature rich thanks to many ideas from jAlbum's great community."

More info: "By day I am a Veterinarian but at other times I am a Mac Consultant, Web Designer, photographer and now a jAlbum Skin developer. I am interested in AJAX and I really like incorporating different javascript libraries into jAlbum. I hope I can actually learn how to do more scripting in jAlbum so I can expand my skins. I enjoy running, swimming, playing music and I am a single parent to two teenage girls. Oh, did I say I love Macs? ( since 1984)."

Traducteurs

Name:Frank Schürer

Connection:German translator

Location:Plauen, Saxony, Germany

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More info: "In 2002 I had to find a way to organize about 1000 photos on a CD for easy presentation. I found jAlbum was a great program that could offer a range of flexibility that is not limited to some predefined templates. At that time the Help of jAlbum was only in English language and I thought it would be great when German speaking people, who aren't fluent in English could use this free program and create their own photo albums easily. So I translated the help files to German and later the jAlbum texts as well when a new update came out. My hobbies and my profession include developing software in C/C++, Java or Delphi and occasionally creating web pages."

More info: "I was born in Romania, where I used to teach English and French and later photography.
Now I live in Germany and test telecommunication software. After a long vacation (almost 20 years :-)
I've started again to take pictures. Nature and mostly people are my inspiration."

Name:Marcelo Guedes

Connection:Portuguese of Brazil translator

Location:São Paulo, Brazil

E-mail:

More info: "My name is Marcelo, I live in São Paulo/Brazil, I have advanced training in Business Administration and Accounting.

I dedicate good portion of my time available to deepen my knowledge in computers, and eventually I participate in fun fishing with my friends.

As do I have dual citizenship (Brazilian and Portuguese), I'm planning on making a travel to get to know several countries in Europe, and enjoy taking great photos of the places I visit.

So anticipating this trip, I needed to find a software that would meet my needs, and I had the great pleasure of discovering the sensational jAlbum software."

More info: "I started translating jAlbum back in 2003 when I was looking for a software to publish the pics of my exchange year in Germany. jAlbum was by far the best tool I found, and what's best, for free! So, as everybody knows, the more people help, the better it gets!"

More info: "Recently moved to London UK from Antwerp Belgium, and having worked for print- and packaging companies I want to try it on myself as a freelancer in web design & translation beside my so called daytime job in London. I got to try jAlbum in 2006. After playing with version 7.1 again I rolled into doing translations for the Dutch version."

More info: "I attend at Midtfyns Gymnasium until this summer where I graduate. In my spare time I’m a freelance web developer. I play the drums, so if you want to find me www.trommeslageren.dk would be a good place to start. I think that is all…"

More info: "After retiring from my job of textbook editor (science, math, IT ...) a few years ago, I love to hike and bike in Lapland and elesewhere with or without a camera. In my spare time I enjoy building houses for me and my wife and used jAlbum to show pictures of the second big project, our villa by the lakeside. I have used various skins and also translated Turtle into Finnish. Most of my albums are on my own site."